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NOTIC',E hereby given, That a SESSION of OY .EB. and TERMINER and GAOL DELIVERY for the TRI/ eL of OFFENCES committed on the HIGH SEAS, within C At Jurisdiction of the ADMIRALTY of ENGLAND, wi ll 1 Je held at JUSTICE HALL, in the OLD BAILEY, LOIN Art.rvie 411,,1111, on oATURTLT, the FIRST of JULY next, at eight n ' C irock in the Morning :—And all SheriEfs, Gaolers, and YA:eiperi of Prisons, in whose custody any Prisoners, charged with "Offences committed on the High Seas, or within the said Juni.- , diction, may be, are hereby required to transmit a copy of the (Commitment of every such Prisoner to Mr. BICE/I/LI., the Soli citor of the Admiralty, on Spring Garden Terrace, London, in order that the necessary measures may be taken, for removing all such Prisoners to His Majesty's Gaol of Newgate, for trial at the: said intended Session : And all Mayors, Justices, Coroners, and other Officers, before whom any Inquisitions, Informations, Exa minations, or Recognbrances may have been taken touching any such Offences, are required to transmit the same forthwith to Mr. Tnoatas Strztrort, the Clerk of Arraigns of the High Court of Admiralty of England, at his Offict; at the Sessions House in the Old Bailey, London. J. W. CROKER. FOREIGN 'LOTTERIES, PRIVATE LOTTERIES, !LITTLE GOES, and RAFFLES. Lottery Office, Somerset-place, May 6, 1826. QUERIES being to END on the 18th DAY -ALL4 of JULY next, Notice is hereby given, that the Laws aFairtat the Sale, or advertising for Sale, of Foreign Lottery ickets, or of any Lottery Tickets not authorized by Parlia niev.it, and against Little Goes and Private Lotteries, will be strictly enforced. It is requested that the outstanding Prizes may he brought. in for payment, with the leagt possible delay, that all the Lot tery Accounts may be finally closed. . L. lIESSE. THE ACT of PARLIAMENT is PEREMP TORY. The Dissolution of all Lotteries is fixed, aid must Close for ever on the 18th Vext Month. The general de mand throughout the Kingdom for a Farewell £30,000, in this, THE LAST riF ALL LOTTERIES, Cannot fail to raise the Pr 'ice of Tickets and Shares considerably an immediate, purchase, is therefore, advised. The Scheme , coneAins for the First, the Last, and only Time, since the establishment of Lotteries, SIX PRIZES OF £30,000, And every Ticket a Prize, At.r.. IN ONE DAY, TUESDAY, 18th JULY, (Nzar MONTH, When all Lotteries End for Ever. lirlf.ets and Shares are on Sale, at No. 4, Cornhill, and 9, Char. ing-Cross, London, the truly fortunate Offices of BISH, Who Shared and Sold in the last Twelve Months, Five Prizes of £30,000 ! Four of £21,000 ! Nine of £20,000 ! Besides numerous others of £lO,OOO ! 2,000 ! and 1,000, &c. Also, in the last Drawing, 3d of last Month, (May), No. 1,833 - Class B. - - £21,000 ! No. 3,925 - Class A. - - - £21,000 ! And numerous Minor Capitals ! IMPORTANT TO FAMILIES. FirlaN BEST COMMENT on the 'Virtues and utuovating Efficacy of Dr. SOLOMON'S CELE- B Ne'STED CORDIAL BALM OF GILEAD is the Cer. rainty that Ladies of Fashion and Respectability find it the most EffiCaCiOth Medical Restorative to be Met with in various ' WeikileSVlS peculiar to their Sex, gently throwing a genial ~warmth upon the debilitated and relaxed frame, recruiting the •decayed spirits, dissipating headache, dulness, and languor, and creating a planting vivacity. The great extent to which it is used by the Sickly, the Nervous, and the Debilitated, proves its unrivalled merit ; to thousands of whom it is daily affinding relief which no other Medicine has supplied. To those whom early indulgence of the Passions—Dissipa- Oen, nr too great Reliance on Constitutional Strength, have 'Seen hijorithis ; to the Sufferer from Lowness of Spirits, Heavi ness of Mind, Deranged Stomach, Languor, and Incapacity for Exertion ; to those in 'whom the Digestive and Nervous Syateina have been deranged, and consequently labouring under irregular and inlaid action ; and to' those perxons who have =t'i'ned, • their Constitutions, and Nought on a perfect Tabett borealis, by an immoderate indulgence of their passions ; or in their way to the consummation 'of that deplorable Malady are 04'00 with Weaknews and the Obstruction of certain Eva cuations, this reniedy is recommend ed from am p le ex p erience %tithe best restorative. • A very important observation may be made in favour of this celebrated ledicine, that unless its operation was gentle , sa f e, efficacious ; it could not have obtained the unexampled 'demand it has acquired ; for, as it has rarely the great advan. taf, of a persuasive advocate at the ear of the Patient, an no. tn rig but his conviction of its virtues, by its salutary effects, can induce perieverance ; and yet reasonable perseverance is certainly most requisite to enable even th e ha pp iest combina. tinnaof Chemicals and Gainnicals to root out chronic diseases tuld restore the valetudinarian to health. Much more might be said in just report of it; for great exgerience has *hewn that none need desliair, however dangerous - their situation may be, when so ,noble, safe, and efficacious a remedy is offered for their relief. to g.--As many Imitations of this excellent Remedy are on Sale, the Public will be sure to ask for it as " Dr. Solo. Ilion's," 'and Look at the Sump a ffi xed to each Bottle , which has "Sionl. Solomon, Liverpool," engraven upon it: none 'ether is genuine. Patients requiring advice may obtain it by application to Gilead-House, accompanied with a remittance of a 11. Note. To be bad at Gilead-House, near Liverpool; of Mr. John ston, t3fl , Cornhill; Mr. Sanger (late Bacon & Co.), IA Ox' ford.striet; Mr. Ward, ; Holborn ; Mr. Henry Alackeill,• 33, Whitechapel„ London; and by all the principal Vend ers of, Patent Medicinal throughout the United Kingdom,. price lis. per Rattle, or four in one Family Bottle for 335. THE MASQUERADE. • On Tuesday night the Argyll Rooms were the scene of festivity, and notwithstanding the heat of the weather, the rooms were pretty well attended. A masquerade is one of those places where a person inclined for fun ca n a lways find it ; but to a simpl e spectator it is, like Madame Vestris, always the same : they invariably ice the same motley assemblage of watchme n , who can say nailing but " Past 1 0 o'clock , " and 4, ove on sailors :who don't know a boarding-pike from a cap. ster n bar—soldiers who know as much of mounting . a horse, as mounting a breach --blacklegs who play at cards about as well as they could play Hamlet—and love rs who perhaps know mote of hanging , by a neck, th an h an ging —on one--=and so it was last night ; there vY4s a harlequin, a " Wild Indian," who, if yelling be the sign of perfection, performed his p a rt most ad mirably, and, as might be expected, a Paul Pry. It sestina` sornevvhat remarkable to us, that this character should out-live the usual period (nine days) allotted for the existence of his genus, but certainly th e re seemed n n s i g n of a falling off in his popularity last night. The attendance of 44 the maids who love the moon" wait as numerous as usual, and the beauty of those yhq had the courage to take off their masks, (and very low were there who had not), seemed highly attrac tive. The champagne creamed and sparkled as usual, and, with , the supper, gave very general satisfaction. W eed', it se'emed' to invigorate the bibifyers and cal. fyers to such an extent, that they were preparing for fresh exertions when we left the rooms, having no in clinaticm .toy follow- die example of Sir John Falstaff, whO iiiittated Mr. Ellistons p erson ation of that cha- Netcr with great precision. POETRY. DAY-BREAK IN THE COUNTRY. Awake ! awake ! the flowers unfold, And tremble bright in the sun, And the river shines a lake of gold— For the young day has begun. The air is blythe, the sky is blue, And the lark on lightsome wings, From bushes that sparkle rich with dew, To Heaven her mstin sings. Then awake, awake, while music's note Now bids thee sleep to shun, Like zephyrs of fragrance round thee float— For the young day his begun. I've wandei'd o'er yen field of light, Where daisies wildly spring, And traced the spot where fays of night Flew round on elfin wing : And I've watched the sudden darting beam Make gold the field of grain, Until clouds obscur'd the passing gleam, And all frown'el dark again. Then awake, awake, each warbling bir d, Now hails the dawning sun; Labour's enlivening song is heard— For the young day has begun. Is there to contemplation given An hour like this one, When twilight's starleas"mantle's riven By the uprising sun ? When feather'd warblers fleet awake, His breaking beams to see, And hill and grove, 'and bush and brake. Are fill'd with melody. Then awake, awake, all seem to chide Thy sleep as round they run, The glories of Heaven lie far and wide— For the young day has begun. SUMMARY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Forty counties in England send - - BO Knights. Twenty-seven cities (Ely none—London 4) 50 Citizens. One hundred and sixty-seven boroughs, two each 334 Burgesses. Five boroughs, one each - - - 5 Burgesses. Two universities, two each - - 4 Burgesses. Five Cinque Ports and their three branches, two each - - • - 16 Barons. Twelve counties in Wales - - - 12 Knights. Twelve boroughs in Wales - - - 12 Burgesses. Shires of Scotland - 30 Knights. Burghs of Scotland - - - 15 Burgesses, Counties of Ireland - tit Knights. Boroughs of Ireland - - - - 86 Burgesses. Sum total 658 Members. The. Scotch Peers elect sixteen Representative Peers for every Parliament. The Irish Peer' elect 28 Representative Peers on the Union, each of whom is elected for life. BALLOON. Yesterday evening a balloon ascended from the gardens of White Conduit-house, Pentonville : the event was rendered more interesting than usual from the circumstance that two females were the only persons who were to ascend in it—one (Mrs. Gra ham (wife of the aeronaut of that name) to whose management it was intrusted—the other, Miss Stocks, who our readers may re collect was the companion of Mr. Harris at the time of the la mentable excursion in which he lost his life. The ascension was announced to take place at half.past five, but. owing, to the violent storm which took place at three, the preparations for inflating it were necessarily postponed. About 1 o'clock, however, the return of fine weather decided the point, and orders were given to pro ceed with the inflation, the aeronauts being .at this timme• in high spirits, and only eager for the moment to arrive when they could take their-departure. Mr. Graham having arranged the &c. • informed the company that he wished to have ten minutes start, on horseback, in the direction which he sup posed the balloon would take, and left the garden for that pur pose. It was shortly afterwards ascertained that the balloon was not sufficiently inflated to carry up both the ladies, and Miss ' Stocks was compelled to relinquish her seat. Mrs. Graham then awaited the signal to ascend, but we heard her say, " Not yet," wishing, we suppose, to give her husband time to get farther off. At length the signal was given, and Mrs. Graham standing up, waved her flag, scarcely clearing the trees which surrounded the 'garden, and appeared to be descending itt the field outside; in fact the balloon had fallen so low as to be obscured by the walls, so that w'e were obliged to quit the garden to obtain another view of it, which we did in the direction of Hackney, and not then appa rently above 150 feet from the earth. Mrs. Graham had de scended near the Green, at Stoke Newington, perfectly safe ; but tranquillity could not be restored until the arrival of Mr. Graham himself, at nearly 10 o'clock, when be publicly assured the com pany of Mr*. Graham's safety. HAIL STORM. Yesterdity afternoon, a most extraordinary scene of confusion and alarm was excited at the Police-office, High-street, Maryle bone, by the sudden and violent hail-storm which did consider able damage in the neighbourhood. Mr. Rawlingua the Ms gistrate, was attending to a case, when his attention was attracted by a sudden noise, as if a volley of pebbles bed been thrown on the skylight immediately over the office, and he had scarcely time to make the inquiry "whether it was raining?" when the sky-light, which is exceedingly spacious, was broken in ration* places by the tremendous force of the hail-stones, and in a moment after wards Lord Montford, Mr. Hoskins, and Mr. Rawlinson , who w ere on the Bench, were surrounded by the fragments of glass, and hail-stones not less than an inch in circumference, which ren dered it necessary for them to make a precipitate retreat from their seats, and make their way to the passage leading to the front of the office in High -street. Thera they were placed in as dan gerous a situation, as an immense sky-light over the passage shared the same fate as that in the peblic office; and while passing t h rou gh it with speed, large pieces of glass and hail-stones struck against them with great force, and .much injury was anticipated; they, however, escaped to the front door, where they remained until the violence of the storm was over, when they returned into the office, which was completely bestrewed with pieces of glass and hail-stones. During the above period, the individuals in the body of the office were :in the utmost confusion, and squeezed themselves into every corner, in order to avoid the glass which was flying.in every direction while the storm lasted. At it s con clusion the Magistrates resumed their labours, and we are happy to say that no further accident occurred. At Hampstead, we understand, the hail-storm did very, extensive injury, particularly to the green-houses, in many of which not a single pane of glass has been left entire. (A NOTION, ACCOUNT.) Yesterday, between two and three o'clock, one of the mos s t dreadful th un d er storms ever what occurred at St. John' Wood, and the adjacent neighbourhood of Paddington. The prin cipal violence of the storm lay at Hall-place, Circus-road—no less than 200 pence were broke. At Pine-apple-place, in the nur eery grounds of Mr. Anderson, 30,000 panes were utterly demo. fished. t t l i f r u o l y 's green-house , troyed ; Pirr Elm-tree-road, was des. The front of 141 r. Boedeit's el d m -r rod d ge been also beater, in, had it not been luckily protected by two large sijGicirot-'ooood-prolinarel,s w d o i u lt hi ro hav e yedestroye d. elm trees. Mr. Atklaso n ' s g -house, in the same neighbour hood, has lost 10,000 squares ; Mrs. Hogg, between 3 and 4,000. BMOrO./.jbenykiltheis'stoPr°mrt,m4nand o N th u e v re lir in Y•t tr i e acme proportion. 7 and The domestic calamities of the Noble House of Ingestrie have been augmented by the receipt of distressing intelli nee from Cologne. The Ron. Arthur t V' no a ° attend the place ..te way a am where he teas hastening to muse of his noble boOther to the' /m y, when hi b eams t h e T lh t had reached that subject of a violent attack of varlet fever s which placed his own fife is cow iarrable jeopardy. Earl Talbot, on receiving this me lancholy informatiot!, set off for Cologne • bat, we are happy to add, that he'had toot proceeded far on 1 4joutney, before he was met br a messenger, with the welcome news that his son heti been pronounced out of danger. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jusa 28. LOCI, V. 10SIE. This action was brought by the plaintiff, en Officer in ,the Custom - h°u'et against the defendant, a Surgeon and Apothecary, residing in the New Kent road, to recover damages for the publi cation of a libel injurious to the plaintiff, inasmuch as it held him up to public ridicule. Mr. SCARIATT stated the case. This was the first time he had ever known a person standing in the situation of a medical attendant, publish a libel on the person whom he was employed to attend. He could not see what right any man had to interfere with the domestic concerns of a family for the purpose of holding up to contempt any one of that family. The plaintiff at an ad vanced period of life had married a lady twenty-live years younger than himself, but that circumstance did not justify his medical adviser *ending forth to the world a song in which the plaintiff was to be made the object of laughter. Mr.,Scatture read the libel. Some passage. were too gross for publication, The following were leas ohjeetionable : AN OLD MAN'S LAMENTATION. ..,` . Do come and help ..poor old man, A wanton wife to tame, Sirs, For she is active, young, and gay, While I am old and lame, Sirs. She's lovely, handsome, Est, and fair, Her age is twenty-three, Sirs ; But, Ah ! I fear, in spite of all, She'll be the death of me, Sirs. When I did go a wooing her, She 'mil% and said Dada, Sirs, But now, I'm disagreeable, An ugly old Papa, Sirs. The Plaintiff having found out the Printer, traced the publica-1 tion to the defendant, and when the Jury heard the evidence they would doubtless give such damages as the case required. Charles Corry said, he knew the plaintiff, Mr. Peter Locke, who resided in Webb's County-terrace, Kent-road. The de fendant carried on the business of a surgeon near the same place; the witness was an apprentice to the defendant's brother; he remembered the marriage of Mr. Locke with his present wife ; the witness received instructions to write a copy of some verses which the defendant had written; he made the copy, and the defendant's brother directed him to take it to the Printer's; he took it to Mr. Burke, a printer, in Seven Dials, and the wit ness had 100 printed; 111 r. John Bosse directed the witness to copy the manuscript, and the copy he made lie gave to the Printer. Two sets were printed by the same Printer, to the order of Mr. John Bosse, the defendant ; the second set of copies the witness was ordered to get printed ; Mr. John Bosse did not attend Mr. Locke as his medical man ; Mr. David Bosse was his medical attendant; the brothers carried on business together ; some of the copies of the song were given away ; he had seen one stuck on the gateway of the terrace, where Mr. Locke lived : the copies were about the defendant's shop. - Cross-examined by the COMMON-SERGEANT.—Mr. John Bosse once took out a tooth for Mr. Locke. The bill was in the hand writing of Mr.. John Bosse. The plaintiff was an elderly man, and hie wife was young. Mr. Locke had two daughters ; the elder was about the age of his wife. - The witness paid his ari dresses to the younger daughter, and was still acquainted with the family. He left Mr. Bosse in . getolser last. .The verses, were circulated in April last. There was some dissatiefactiOn, and hi' left Mr. Bosse's fatnil'. He did not know that they thought he was not paying sufficient attention to the business. He had no doubt that the person alluded to in the bill was Mr. Locke. Mr. Burke, a printer, said the last witness came to him with the manuscript of the bill. The first manuscript was destroyed after the first set had been printed. He received a second order in April last, and printed another set of bills. Cross-examined by Mr. Cistrrv.—The witness said there was an alteration in the second title. The first manuscript was headed " The Old Man who bed four Wives. The la:it was " The Old Man's Lamentation." Mr. Corry called again.—The additional verse was written to the last copies. It was in the hand of Mr. J. Bosse. Some of the first copies were stuck up near the plaintiff's residence. The COMMON SaaGXANT objected that there was no proof that the defendant published a paper entitled " The Old Man's Lamentation." It had not been proved whether Mr. John Bosse was the publisher of the sung with that title or his brother. Mr. SCARLETT contended that there was proof to go to the . Jury. . . . The CHIEF JUSTICE said, it appeared that the brothers were so connected together, that the act of one was the act of the other. Mr. Locke, the son of the plaintiff, said his father was sur veyor of the King's Warehouse at the Custom-house. His father married Mademoiselle Euphrosyne Desangennies, a lady much younger than himself. The defendant was in the habit of attend. ing him. y The Cosmos Sitaozatre then addressed the Jury for the de fendant. It was said in the declaration, that the plaintiff had married four wives and had seven children. He had also lately married a beautiful woman, Euphrosyne Desangennies, and was living in happiness and comfort when the defendant published the libel. If that were so, he was wrong in coming into a Court of law to disturb his happiness; but the question was whether the defendant was the author of the alleged libel ? There was not one fact proved by Mr. Corry or Mr. Locke, to show that Mr. Bosse had any thing to do with the publication. , The young man , , who had been examined appeared to be the author of this song; it was the language of youth, and did not smell of the apothecary's shop. Youth was apt to combine strength with weakness. The daughters of Mr. Locke were displeased at having a sort of Dueuna brought home by their father, and young -Corry being the admirer of the youngest daughtar, the preemption was that he was the author of the verses. The young man, interested as he was, however, said Mr. Bosse was the author, and that , he copied the verses ; but the Jury csitild not reasonably believe that to be the cue. There was no one to connect Mr. Bosse with the transaction, but the evidence of u young man who had been discharged from his (the defendant's) eervice. He could not justify the song, but it was not a publication that called for damages. It was a thing which could not he read without a smile. Peter Pinder had said— • To laugh is a laudable thing, When people are silly and mean. " The Jury would perhaps think the same way, and consider this snore a subject for laughter than damages. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICZ left the Jury to say, whether they believed the testimony of Corry. If he was believed, the publi cation was brought home to the defendant. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Dsmages, 601. clelphi Theatre, Mr. Scott, lat e p ro prietor of the A is again its owner by purchase. He is fitting it up in a very handsome style. Sir John Sinclair strongly recommends the use of oil as a manu re , h av i ng seen excellent eff ec t s resu lti ng from it on the Continent, and in some rec e nt expe riments in this c ountry. it is applied i n th e vapor tion of two ga ll on s of coarse whale oil to t wen ty b us h e l s of ashes. EARTIZQUA )(E.—At the end of October, an ear th. quake was ex p er i ence d at Shirauz, in Pe rs i a , w hi c h destroyed'many buildings ; and, among other national monuments, overthrew the celebrated tombs of Hafiz and Saadi. Th us , t w o years in sucCession, h as t hi s part of the w or ld b een vi sited by the sam e appa lli ng phenomenon. RENtARKABLE GRowTIIMr A TROUT.—On Tuesday morning a t ro ut, of the extraordinary weight of twelve pounds, was caught in one of the waters at Welton Plitee,in Northamptonshire. It was turned in, in 1822, four years ago, at which time it measured three inches in length, and weighed two ounces ; and, when caught, it was two feet nine inches in length, ten inches wide, and f ou r inches thick through (what is usually called the thin) or the belly part, and being a kipper "Thale fish, iti size was not increased by be ing in spawn. JOSEPH HUME. Nobody, it would appear, has thought it worth while to oppose Mr. Hume, in that he will probably be returned for his burghs in the north: Joseph, however, has always been of opinion, that "a: bird in the hand in Worth two in the bush," and he has lost no time, therefore, in paying his addresses to his constituents. He has been breakfasting its Dundee, dining in Brechin, and supping in Arbroath. He has been going to church with the Magistrates,. and exchanging snuff-bow with the guildry. He has been eating. strawberries with the bailie:' wives, and making speeches t o th e incorporated trades. It is belause our attention has been attracted by one of those speeches that w speak of him now at All. We have read the newspaper report of it with immense amusement. If it be really what Joseph said, he is not only one of the best arithmetician*, hut one of the vainest men in the three kingdoms. He has actually been trying to make the good honest people in the north believe that every thing done in the last Parliament was done by him ! " I flatter myself," said he, (the word flatter was well selected) "that the superior accuracy of the finance estimates, the reduction* in the expenditure and the taxes, the repeal of the combination laws, the new views entertained of the impressment arid flogging of seamen—, of the English and Irish Church Establishments, dim, com mutation of tythes, of the Catholic question, and of, Lal. &e. ice., have all been effected through ray instrumentality." How thew popular candidates do talk ! To hear them, one would think that they were each and severally the very life and soul of the British Parliament, that in the House of Com mons they were the Triton among the minnows, the Dr. Andrew Thomson in the Church Patronage Society. But how soon their vapouring ends when they find themselves seated opposite a Ro binson, a Huskisaon, or a Canning ! Then you may see them like so many " poor Yoricks"--" quite chop-fallen !" endeavour ing to meet clear and luminous statements with heavy priming de tails, or sparkling wit and satire with dull, ponderous verbosity. If honest Joseph had told the corporations of Brechin that in the last session he had made three hundred and forty-seven motions, it would have been well enough, but to try to make them be lieve that he carried three was a little too much. —Ediabnegli Observer. GENERAL ELECTION. TO MEMIERS, CANDIDATES, COMMITTEES, and Er.x,crohs.:Being anxious to give the fullest and most correct account of the Elections throughout Me Kingdom, we shall be very thankfiil to any Gentle man immediately interested, to favour us by post or otherwise, With the state o f the Polling, and oche, 'natters Connected with Me Election, in his Town or County. SOMERSET....hcurcria, TUIESDAY, .lingit 27, At the dose of the poll to-day the Under Sheriff declared the numbers to be ste follow : Dickinson Lethbridge Hunt 1,713 t 1,862 • 299 One of the poll-clerks, named Baker, gave in his account of the state of the poll in a manner which showed great animus against Mr. Hunt, of which the latter complained; and the High Shvilf sharply reprimanded the clerls.., The man apologized, by stating that he was only a schoolmaster, and would do so no more. The Court was then adjourned to two o'clock to-morrow. Upon which Mr. HUNT rose, and complained that the other candidates had again turned their backs upon the freeholders in much the same way as they did when petitions to Parliament were intrusted to f their ears. At a meeting held at Wells in January, 1828, the freeholders had petitioned for a reform of various abuses, and 1w fhad now a copy of the petition, which he would resit to the freeholders. (The petition Was then reed.) It complained of thegreat distress to which the petitioners were reduced, and preyed for a remission of taxation and a reform in Parliament. The petition %. , as moved by him at Wells, as an amendment to one proposed b) Mr. Henning, and seconded by Mr. Sandford; it was adopted at a meeting composed of 8000 persons, and though Mr. Stuckey, the very amiable and intellectual Sheriff of that period, had refused to give it his sanction, as he ought to have done, it had been signed, after the meeting, by about 7,000 persons. Out of from 8,000 to 10,000 persons who were at that meeting, no more than 27 held up their hands against the petition ; and no one could, therefore, doubt that it expressed the sense of the county. Sir Thomas had promised to give its prayer his support, excepting as regarded the Judges' gaieties ; but instead of doing so, be had said that although it was most numerously signed, he did not approve of its prayer. Sir Thomas thus proved that he disregarded the wishes of the county; and by this, and various other acts and omissions, he had proved himself wholly unworthy to represent the county. To petition was a privilege not denied to man by his Creator; but such men as Sir Thomas, though them selves but on a level with their fellow -creatures, would pour contempt upon their petitions, and deny them the consolation of knowing that their complaints were properly brought before the notice of those who could relieve them ; and yet, though Sir Thomas Lethbridge had proved himself so im worthy of support, he was surrounded by the Magistrates, the clergy, and the law)ers, and by the combined force of these men brought to his aid, he could set the county at defiance. In proof of this he could mention instances in which persons, lumest free holders, who gave him (Mr. Hunt) the preference, and promised to come to vote for him, bad been induced to break their words by the influence and intimidations of these several classes of persons, who formed a masa of influence with which he feared it was of little use to contend; and yet these were the persons who set themselves up as patterns of morality and teachers of religion ! How could they expect to escape the exposure and the infamy which properly attached to tuck a line of conduct? No sooner did he state facts in relation to the conduct of these men, than up got such a fellow as Vincent Stuckey and said, " It is a lie, it is a d--.d lie." This was the answer he got to his statements about what occurred in Ilehester gaol ; it was false, and be (Mr. Hunt) was a MOSS malicious, wicked clog, for stating it. The robberies in that prison, the cruelties and delinquencies of the gaoler, were all unfounded, until he had an importunity of proving their truth, when, though most fully substantiated, the delinquent was al lowed to go free. Since he last addressed the freeholders, be had provided himself with a copy of the evidence adduced before the Commissioners appointed to examine into the state of Ilchester gaol. It would show how the county was robbed by the gaoler. The magistrates had connived at these robberies , and they had never endeavoured either to punish or to recover. soy thing from that individual who had, through their neglect, robbed the freeholders. A shop had been set up in the gaol for making shoes, and the money for them, when mad e, w ar never accounted for. Mr. White, the attorney for Bridle , the late g ao l er, never g av e the !lightest answer to .the charge on behalf of his client. The head master of the manufactory had told him, that quantities of shoes were made for the magistrates, amongst others, and no account was ever rendered of the receipts , nor co u l d a ny r e turn be o b tain e d. Sir John Aelsod, who was a very good magistrate, and the only one who had acted towards him (Mr. Hunt). like a gentleman, had some of these shoes; and other persons without number were thus supplied. Eight hundred pairs had been sent off in one week, but no account of receipts could be found. The gaoler kept a very con. vivid house, and amongst his pot-companions some of these Magi'. trates were to he found. Articles of luxury—such as butter, who had been the w i ns , B, e ,—were, on occasions of their visits, fetched from ' the shops and inns, and charged to the county, being entered as charges , f or i n K iptaining the sick; whilst, in fact, they were consumed at their drunken festivals, of which some of the Magistrates have habit, not of going been cltai r h anu o i l l v o n f t t o he b e ci p ti a a r . t . i t e eh ti ro. . usesessi S t i o r ons, J ai o re h wp n :ls A bi c un l t a tt n to d e , tahe his bed i n to an inn or a fri end's the g aol; but whether he went there for the bed alone, he (Mr. H un t) could not say. Whilst such things were allowed, it was n o wonder that the expen ces of. the county w ere enormous; and I the Magistrates had no right to complain if they were charged by hi m with impropriety and ,gross negligence in the discharge of the duties they owed to the county. Sir Thomas Lethbridge and Mr. Dickinson were not only parts of this magistracy, but they were its supporters in Parliament ; - they had always been so; the time he nulgi wee aerates, in gaol, clergy, he saw before him; and it was quite elear:that if they represented any body of pereonk it was tim ent freeholders of the county. o ne o f th e v i s iti n g magistrates at and lawyers, and nut the independ and although Dr. Coniston had not treatedhirn with much consideratinn or courtesy when he had been under lock and key-- Dr. CoorseoN.—ln the situation in which you were placed I treated you as a gentleman; and if you• had been my neereat re lation, 1, in the situation 1 filled at the time, could not have treat ed you with greater kindness. fluzer-1 dare say Dr. Coulston remembers eneni nif i n t o toy room one day, end professing, as he does now, his, wish to render MC any service, asking me a question or two. I thought they we► c put in a very queer and ewkward manner, and hating en eye-tooth in toy head, I observed that the door was not shut close ; I went to it, a►nd who should I see there listening but the turnkey ? I asked him how he could think of placing each a fel. low as that to listen to our conversation ? Dr. Con Lsros was about to make some observation, when—. tIuNT proceeded... 4 assured you tl►en, Dr. Coniston, and 1 assure you now, that you never did your duty as a Christian Minister anti a Magistrate, in not going round to visit the prisoners, and to inspect the gaol, without having such a lurk ing fellow as a turnkey with you. I say you should have looked at every part of the gaol when such a man was not resent ; for, as a man of intelligence and knowledge of the world, you must here known that a man ilarkott complein of any grievance when aunt person MO present. You know that ninety-nine out. oft hundred prisoners would not dare. to open their lips, in the way of complaint, before the turnkey! You were told by the Com missioners that it was your ditty to go round alone, and to inquire of the prisoners when in a eituation iu which they might speak the truth. Dr. Cont,sim.—Witenever went to ice you r did to * Magistrate, and I waited on you to know if you had any thing to say to nit ; but when 1 went to other prisoners, I always said I will take down what you say, and you shall see me is the visit ing Magistrate's room. Mr. lioxr.—After the very manly way in which you have stood up to defend yourself, Dr. Couleton, perhaps I ought to apologize to you for mentioning your name in the way I did. should be sorry to say any thing personally offensive to you. Dr. Cour.sTme-- - -1 never had the least animosity towards you in my life, nor have I now. Mr. HUNT then proceeded to state the hardship endured by the prisoners in the gaol, particularly as respected a man of the name of Hill, who, having been put in prison for Bbl., being a balance due to the Government, had been kept there 16 years, and making up his mind to stay there for life, had actually made his will. that men's case had been inquired into, and properly represented to Government he would have been released, and the freeholder* of the county Would have been saved 15/. per 11111111111, the **pence of his support for lei years. A petition was presented on his behalf by Mr. Grey Bennet, to Parliament ; Mr. Dickinson got up in the House and said, if not in words, to the effect, that it was all a lie,. that he was one of the visiting Magistrates,that they were all most honour able and amiable men (and so they . . were, no doubt, unless when they got too much wine, as they did at Mr. Phelips's, the other night.) The consequence was, the petitioner failed, and Continued another six years in prison, when another petition was presented by Whig. Mr. - Dickinson being also a Whig, the petition was in courtesy shown to him, and he declared it to he all false; that there never was a better gaoler, never wiser or more kind-hauted magistrates. What was the consequence, hut that the gentleman declined to present the petition, and returned it, stating that he found from Mr. Dickinson that he had been imposed upon, and the man remained in confinement until he (Mr. Hunt) took up hie cause ; .and Mr. Dickinson's double knocks not satisfying him, that and other circumstances led to an inquiry, which terminated in the appointment of a. commission to inquire into the state of Beheater gaol. Mr. Dickinson and Sir Thomas Lethbridge would never have obtained any such commission. They did not trouble themselves about it, and the abuses would have One on to this day, if no other person had exerted himself. It was therefore clear, that although the magistrates, the clergy, and the lawyer., had their advocates in Parliantent b the yeomen had no representatives, for their keiliugs and interest had been alto gether disregarded. Mr. Hunt then went on to detail numerous eases of hardship•to which lie and others had been exposed, and whits's he laid to the account of the magistrates, protected as they had 'been from all inquiry and control by their menthera. .4mongle other things, Mr. Hunt stated that he was told by tine of two lay men—(he would not say whether Mr. Phelips or Mr. Harming, who were, with three clergymen, the visiting magistrates sit the time)—that they had been beaten by the par;ons an a point eon. eerning himself. Rev. Mr. Timms rriu, to deny that whilst he was visiting magistrate any such circumstances occurred. It was not out of disrespect to Mr. Hunt, hut to his nwn character and those around' him, that he interrupted Mr. Hunt, to deprecate the couree he was pursuing from day to day of attacking the ma • gistnites, and exposing them to unmerited obloquy. Relying on tar well-known reputation for protection, they had not thought it worth while to repel these attaeke ; but being parson• 'ally referred to, he would say that all the charges Mr. Huot has made had been thoroughly i►►vestigated, end that by enemies; for he would contend that those men in the House of Commons ware enemies who attended to exparte statements, and sent them forth to the world. The character of those magistrates had been left unstained by reproach, and all around them reposed that confidence in their love of justice and honour which they felt they were entitled to claim from them. Mr. Hunt had no right to make charge against Dr. Coniston, and when he stood up to defend himself, to think that an apology would he initisfactoty, he ought `to know that they were well-founded, or not to make them. If 'Mr. Bunt would make any specific charges, he was ready to meet them. Mr. HUNT said, that he had never nude a charge which wain°. Substantiated, and that would 'ppm from the printed report of the 'Commissioners. That was made upon oath, and would prove that all he had stated, about both Hillier, himself, and the visiting Me gistrates, was strictly true. He had charged Dr. Coniston, and that young man's father, with inflicting torture upon a prisoner; all that he had amid about them had been established by the most convincing proofs ; and those who examined the evidence would find that he was fully borne out. What could be a greater proof of the impropriety of their conduct than the Secretary of State send bag down an order in the very teeth of all their orders, and even 'without consulting with them, or allowing them to be the medium of its execution ? After this, Mr. Dickinson and others had be corn, extremely polite and kind, but it was 'ton late ; for he knew thefull G well,,l.4lu:tat Government. nothingwi , A eydid ti n t o o t t c h o e n ni tin b u u e t to to i tha it eo lt i r n n e m ul i t ai !i io n n and in jury upon him, because they had no longer the power. As for the gentlemen tvho had interrupted him, he bad come to him in the first instance as a fox-hunter rather than a parson and a Magia trate, booted and spurred like a jockey : and when he had shown. him water which the prisoners were supplied with, that had passed through the sewers, he said it WAS fitfur culinary porposti. Mr. TURING again rose to explain and vindicate himself end he other Magistrates, and asked Mr. Hunt to allow him to read he evidence. Mr. Hittur offered to give the report to the High Sheriff and to Mr. Thring, to read, but Mr: Thring then declined to reed it, and the Sheriff thought it irrelevant ; the parties coming to high worth, end great agitation prevailing, the Sheriff said that the nut was adjourned, and, with his officers and many gentlemen, Withdrew. Mr. Hun remained, and read extracts Mint the evidence, wbich teemed fully to confirm his previous statements. WESTMORLAND.--(Foustrn DAT.) Arrt.tsv, lifoxpAy, Ji.94 2 t 4, Polling went nn spiritedly and uninterruptedly throughout the day. In the ear ly part t h e a d ea utsge lay with the Blues; hut about noon, the immense exertions which their opponent, 'We In a particular booth, turned the fortune of the day- f`irsithir party a bat e s i n con f i d enc e, and ,they affeet to he ecousirtted with each other's strength to a man. Party.spirit rune so high, that a man is proscribed by oos party if he is see n s p eaking to An ad herent of the other.. A sensation was produced upon the Blues, and more partictr. , laxly the persona friends of Mr. 'Brouflhaa4 by the arrival of the, Courier here this morning, whi ch contained a report, affe4'liall to be a true account, of the epreehee delivered here on Thursday lad. I n t h e report o f c o lonel, I.ovrther's 'speech, diet Gentle-- man is made to e xpress hintsalf in a way which Mr, Brougham cou ld not avoid c „,,, a id et ing as offensive to him v and rumour; hays been ntioot. all day, that be consequence AA this statem en t In the Courier., hostile messages had been delivered, and . en. plAnatione demanded and conceded between Mr. Brougham, M r . Wharton, and Colonel Lowther ; but as these matters have bleett touched upon in a public manner by thus gentlemen themselves, I refer you to their speeches as the most authentic reptutotation